Byzantine ArchitectureA lavishly illustrated study of the construction materials and techniques and the significant architectural achievements of the Byzantine Empire. |
Contents
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS | 7 |
CITIES OF THE EARLY | 20 |
EARLY BYZANTINE ECCLESIATICAL | 35 |
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aisles appears apse arcade arches architect Armenian Asia Minor atrium Balkans barrel vaults basilica bema bishop brick building built Bulgarian Byzantine architecture Byzantine Empire Byzantium capital carved cathedral central Christ Christ Pantocrator Christian church of St cistern colonnaded columns complex Constantine Constantinople construction cross-in-square cruciform decoration dome Dormition Dormition church Early Byzantine period eleventh century emperor erected exterior façade feature feet Fenari Isa Camii four gallery Gerasa Greece ground plan Holy Apostles Hosios Loukas imperial interior looking east Irene Justinian Kariye Camii katholikon Kiev later marble martyrium masonry Middle Byzantine Mistra monastery monastic church monuments mosaic Mount Athos narthex nave Nea Moni octagonal Ohrid original outer narthex palace Palaeologan Panagia piers Preslav Qal'at Ravenna reign Resafa Roman roof Russia Serbian Sergius and Bacchus side sixth century Sophia southeast square squinches stantinople stone structure Syria Thessalonica twelfth century Virgin Vladimir walls